VIA Rail network developments

[Richard Eade]

VIA Rail should not be allowed to get away with such vague reasons as “operational constraints”. I hope that they are strongly reprimanded during the Wednesday afternoon grilling by the Transport, Infrastructure, and Communities committee.

What EXACTLY is the issue that is preventing VIA Rail from running trains? Not enough time allotted on the tracks? Are the new trains incapable of running in winter? Is winter track maintenance insufficient? Are there too few engineers, or other staff, to run the trains? Is VIA Rail out of money?

The reason that we get such meaningless ‘information’ presented to us is because no-one in power throws it back and demands more. I sincerely hope that the members of Wednesday’s meeting will start a new trend, and ask for more.